FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE
Sir,—At the Provincial Conference of. tho farmers' TJuion held at 1< eliding this ; n-eek a remit from the v:,s ' : diseased. The remit asks that tho sup- , nlies of phosphates from Island ; in W hands of the farmers , co-operative companies in equal quanli- ■ , ties, in order that fertilisers may be *o-. , cured at cost price, lho report of tliO; . discussion showed that this remit was ; aimed At the middleman, whom the far-. j iiw>r desires to eliminate. . ] To secure fertilisers at cost price means, ■ that the farmer shall only pay cost of tho , material, plus shipping, h ; cl # j; 1 ; ! aire, insurance, and railage to his station., May I ask if the various co-ope ativo : j or, | not, is to get the phosphate absolutely at , °°If £ charge is to be made distrij, j button,.'what is that charge to be? M ; ; the rights of farmers liKo m sj e V,' ' • ; Ire not shareholders 111 any of the w, : SpeXe companies, be conserved?-!: . nm ' etC " SMALL RUNHOLDEE, * '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19200531.2.52.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 210, 31 May 1920, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
167FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 210, 31 May 1920, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in